Lupin in the shrieking shack

[sylviampj]

No: HPFGUIDX 169235

> Neri:
> My take on this has always been that both Lupin and Snape didn't
> remember that this was to be a full moon night. .......> Both 
Snape and Lupin don't behave in the Shack as if a transformation
> is due any moment, although Lupin forgetting his potion comes up in
> the conversation. 
> 
> 
> Neri
>

I don't quite agree with you there. Lupin dreaded transforming into 
a werewolf and feared the full moon more than anything - as the 
shape of his boggart shows in POA. Moreover he was a teacher at a 
school with hundreds of pupils none of whom knew he was a werewolf. 
His safety and their's and his ability to hold on to his job meant 
that he had to remember exactly when the full moon was, take his 
potion carefully every night for a week like an antibiotic and then 
withdraw to his room in plenty of time for the transformation. The 
only reason I can think of that he forgot was that he had received 
such a tremendous shock when he saw the Marauders map and realised 
that several things he had believed for 13 years were not true 
i.e.that Peter Pettigrew was not dead as he had believed and thus 
his old friend Sirius Black whom he had thought for so long had 
betrayed James and Lily and killed Pettigrew might not be guilty. 
Remember that Lupin had not seen Sirius Black for 13 years before he 
burst into the Shrieking Shack but that he treated him immediately 
as a friend and disarmed Harry before he could harm Black. He had 
obviously worked out the whole story before he got there. He must 
have been in a state of shock and that in itself would have driven 
everything else out of his head. As for Snape, he went to the 
shrieking shack knowing that HP and co were there (invisibility 
cloak) with Lupin and that Lupin had not taken his potion.  He 
probably went there to give HP and co an earful and send them back 
to the castle and bring Lupin back while it was still safe to do so. 
But suddenly and unexpectedly he is confronted by a person he 
loathes possibly more than Harry, a man who nearly had him killed 
while he was in school...and whom he firmly believes is a murderer. 
Reason enough to forget everything else, and of course, Harry and co 
knock him out with their combined spells before he has a chance to 
gather his thoughts.

Sylvia.